Category: Speaking Events

“If America refuses to see children as a heritage, a reward and an opportunity to shape its future – America is walking on the path of self destruction.”

Virginia Prodan

This ruling by the Supreme Court is a ridiculous offense not only to the will of the people of Texas to protect women and babies but to all Americans.

The Supreme Court Whole Women’s Health et al. v. Hellerstedt, http://Whole Women’s Health et al. v. Hellerstedt, today struck down a Texas law regulating abortion clinics, delivering a 5-3 decision that was the high court’s first major foray into the abortion issue in nine years.

The majority opinonin for the court wrote by Justice Stephen Breyer with Justices Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joining him. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented.

Family Research Council – http://frc.org/scotus – FRC – President Tony Perkins said:

“Five justices on the Supreme Court have overturned the votes of 50 million Americans and demanded that the American people walk away from millennia of history and the reality of human nature.
“In reaching a decision so lacking in foundation in the text of the Constitution, in our history, and in our traditions, the Court has done serious damage to its own legitimacy.
“No court can overturn natural law.  Nature and Nature’s God, hailed by the signers of our Declaration of Independence as the very source of law, cannot be usurped by the edict of a court, even the United States Supreme Court.
“Just as with Roe v. Wade in 1973, the courts will not have the final say on this profound social matter.  The American people will stand up for their right to have a voice and a vote, especially as they experience the ways in which redefining marriage fundamentally impairs their freedom to live and work in accordance with their beliefs.
“With this ruling, the Supreme Court has set our government on a collision course with America’s cherished religious freedoms, explicitly guaranteed in the First Amendment of the Constitution.
“Americans will not stop standing for transcendent truth, nor accept the legitimacy of this decision.  Truth is not decided by polls or the passage of time, but by the One who created time and everything that exists therein.
“We will not lapse into silence but will continue to speak uncompromisingly for the truth about what marriage is, always has been, and always will be: the union of one man and one woman,” concluded Perkins.

President Obama said. “We remain strongly committed to the protection of women’s health, including protecting a woman’s access to safe, affordable health care and her right to determine her own future.”
But “Are they indeed for woman’s care ? We shall see how this Supreme Court decision will bring so many injuries to women. It is so disrespectful to women that we require a higher standard of protection of hair salon; veterinarian clinics but refuse to give the same standard for abortion clinics and protect women.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, in a series of Tweets, hailed the decision as “a victory for women” — but said there’s more work to be done.

The real hope comes from our Texas Gov. Greg Abbot who said: “The fight isn’t over: The next president has to protect women’s health. Women won’t be ‘punished’ for exercising their basic rights. -H,” Clinton tweeted.

“The decision erodes States’ lawmaking authority to safeguard the health and safety of women and subjects more innocent life to being lost,” Abbott said. “Texas’ goal is to protect innocent life, while ensuring the highest health and safety standards for women.”

Texas abortion clinics had challenged a 2013 state law and regulations that cut the number of abortion providers in half, to roughly 20. Fewer than 10 would have remained open if the law was allowed to take full effect. The Center for Reproductive Rights had sued Texas, on behalf of a coalition of abortion clinics.

I am so proud that the Texas law required all clinics performing abortions in the state to operate as certified “ambulatory surgical centers,” which would be regulated under the same standards as hospitals. Doctors who performed abortions were also required to first obtain admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. Proponents of the law argued it would improve patient care and safety, though abortion rights groups contended the law made it nearly impossible to operate a clinic in Texas.

“When we decide cases on particularly controversial issues, we should take special care to apply settled procedural rules in a neutral manner,” Alito wrote in his dissent. “The Court has not done that here.”

Moreover, Alito referenced the Kermit Gosnell case, is a great reminder in which an abortion doctor in Pennsylvania was convicted of the murder of three infants who were born alive and the death of a patient. Alito said the Texas law was designed to prevent similarly shoddy medical practices from remaining open.

Thomas quoted the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February, in his dissent.
Thomas wrote that the decision “exemplifies the court’s troubling tendency `to bend the rules when any effort to limit abortion, or even to speak in opposition to abortion, is at issue.”’

Alliance Defending Freedom – http://www.adfmedia.org/home/contact– Senior Counsel Steven H. Aden regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Monday in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt said:

”Abortionists shouldn’t be given a free pass to elude medical requirements that everyone else is required to follow. We are disappointed that the Supreme Court has ruled against a law so clearly designed to protect the health and safety of women in the wake of the Kermit Gosnell scandal. The law’s requirements were commonsense protections that ensured the maximum amount of protection for women, who deserve to have their well-being treated by government as a higher priority than the bottom line of abortionists. Any abortion facilities that don’t meet basic health and safety standards are not facilities that anyone should want to remain open.”

Our voices and votes are still important. Without question we all agree that Justice Kennedy and Justice Ginsburg will be replaced by the next President along with a replacement for Justice Scalia.
We also agree that the election of Hillary Clinton is unthinkable to all of us who value the right to life.  Today’s decision is surely a painful reminder that we Texans and Americans must do all we can to prevent the election of Hillary Clinton.

America’s future is in our hands. We are the voice of America – we are the 50 million Americans and the Supreme Court is only a group of  5 people.

If yesterday pro-life Americans were unsure about Donald Trump, today we have no excuse.

“If America refuses to see children as a heritage, a reward and an opportunity to shape its future – America is walking on the path of self destruction.”

Virginia Prodan